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Guys if you are going to concert don’t ignore this. It is the first time after years they are asking us to pair our army bam with our ticket since it doesn’t pair automatically. They probably did it to make the army bam special message with armys like they did before so everyone make sure to do it to not mess it up😭😭😭
“Normal is a sad song”
Yes it is. Rapline’s verses especially broke me the first time I heard them. And the way their verses directly reflect their roles and the mantles they’ve adopted as RM, SUGA and j-hope of BTS.
Hobi. The man who has literal hope in his name. Who became the embodiment of hope and light to so many. The one deemed the happy one. The one everyone looks to when they’re down. The man who felt like he couldn’t show show hi struggles and fears and worries because he’s always had to be the positive one. The easy going one. The man who even during times where he was not ok, would smile, square his shoulders and say, yea I’m okay I’m your hope after all. He sings, “How am I supposed to feel? Used to think I was built with a heart made of steel. Now I understand the truth, some pain don’t heal. If everything’s just happy, that ain’t real.”
Yoongi. The man who has openly admitted that mundane things like going to the movies are what he cherishes most. The one who cried when he realised how big bts was becoming and what it meant for them. The man who people went after because of his vulnerability. The man who has openly spoken about his mental health struggles. The man who had to compartmentalise his identities to make sense of his journey, his anger, his frustrations. The man who over the years has come to accept that this was what he chose. His normal. He sings, “I breathe everything out like a thousand times. Normal and special, they are just some lines. One deep sigh, then it slips away, fades away. What I try to keep never want to stay.”
And then—
Namjoon. The leader of BTS. The literal front line of his team. The man who has carried all of this for over a decade. The man whose words are constantly taken, kneaded, broken down, twisted, reimagined. The man who is criticised twice as hard because of who he is, the team he’s part of and the company he’s from. The man who at some point lost his true self in all the varied versions of himself that he had to become to satisfy every party. Versions that haunted him. He sings, “Run away, pushin me, pullin me. Said you wanted all of me but what is even all of me? Suddenly, part of me is haunting me. Heard the things they callin me, what the hell you want from me?”
So yes. A hundred times yes. Normal is a very very sad song.
For one second of Tinker Bell's pixie dust, a Disney artist had to paint 24 separate sparkle pictures by hand. Each picture went on its own clear plastic sheet, and the sheets were stacked on top of the character drawings, one sheet for every frame of the movie. Disney had a whole department doing nothing but this, from 1937 to 1989.
Josh Meador ran that department for 30 years. He joined Disney in 1936 and stayed until he died in 1965. On his watch the team made the pixie dust in Peter Pan, the fairy dust in Sleeping Beauty, the bubbles in Cinderella, and the fire in Bambi. He was later called one of the five greatest effects animators in history. Almost nobody outside Disney knew his name.
Snow White in 1937 needed 750 artists working three years and about 2 million separate paintings to finish. The budget was $1.5 million, around $34 million today. Walt mortgaged his own house to help pay for it. Every single sparkle on every gem in the dwarfs' mine scene was painted by hand on the back of a clear plastic sheet, so the front would stay clean.
Those sparkles that turn Cinderella's rags into the blue ball gown came from a different artist, George Rowley. Walt later told animator Marc Davis that Cinderella's transformation was his favorite piece of animation the studio ever made.
Marc Davis was the man who drew Tinker Bell herself. Her glowing pixie dust trail came from the effects team next door. Character artists drew the people. The effects team handled everything else that moved on screen: fire, water, smoke, and sparkles.
The Little Mermaid in 1989 was the last Disney film made this way. Starting with The Rescuers Down Under the next year, every Disney sparkle has been digital, made in a computer. Every classic Disney sparkle you remember is a hand-painted relic from a 52-year department that no longer paints anything by hand.
I really need these words for myself today.
@BTS_twt Namjoon 💜 : Everything happens for a reason. God always gives us challenges according to our capacity. Because there are many times when life feels like unjust criticism.
16 years ago today, at just 17 years old, #SUGA, then known as GLOSS, produced and composed “518-062,” a track commemorating the May 18 Gwangju Uprising, with “518” representing the date and “062” being Gwangju’s area code.
Originally created for his underground hip-hop crew D-Town, the song was made for a competition held for a festival honoring the 1980 democratic uprising in Gwangju. It was performed by rapper Nakshun before later being posted on Nate Pann.